Troy,
Ain' no such critter as a "Pied Crow-Strike". It is just another
example of journalistic illiteracy, or an over-reliance on spell-
check. I think that what the journo meant is "Pied Crow-Shrike", which
John Gould called the Pied Currawong in his "Birds of Australia".
Cheers cobber,
Carl Clifford
On 09/03/2009, at 11:00 AM, Troy Mutton wrote:
Hi birders,
Read this bit on the SMH just now -
http://www.smh.com.au/national/its-our-own-strain-of-strine-habib-20090308-8sgx.html?page=-1
about ¾ down.
""Yakka", from the Yagara language of Brisbane, is one of the few
commonly used Aboriginal words, along with "jackaroo", probably a
Brisbane word for a pied crow strike, one of the country's noisiest
birds."
Does anyone want to have a go at what a "Pied Crow Strike" is? I'm
thinking it must be magpie-lark (or mudlark, or murray magpie, or
possibly now "pied crow strike"), currawong, or magpie. I wouldn't
think any of them to be among the country's noisiest birds - surely
the sulphur-crested cockatoos have got that down.
I can't recall if this has been discussed here before - and the
archive's down.
Cheers
Troy
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